Brush-holder



(No Model.)

A. R. WIENS.

BRUSH HOLDER.

Patented June 1,1897.

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ADOLPII R. \VIENS, OF MILW'AUKEE, \VISCONSIN.

BRUSH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 583,559, dated June 1,1897. Application filed November 29, 1895. Serial No. 570,430. (Nomodel.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ADOLPH R. TIENS, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBrush-Holders for Bottle-Washers; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide simple, economical, andefficient brush-hold ers that do not require removal from abottle-washing machine when new brushes are substituted for those thatbecome unserviceable; and it consists in what is hereinafter set forthwith reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents an elevation of a portion of abottle-washing brush in connection with my improved holder, the latterand a sleeve or portion of a water-conduit with which it engages beingpartly in section on line 1 1 of Fig. 2; Fig. 2, an elevation of thebrush shank and holder, the aforesaid sleeve or portion'of thewater-conduit engaged by said holder being in section; and Fig. 3, aplan view on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents the wire shank of abottle-washing brush embodyin g bristles b in its construction, and theeye 0, obtained by twisting the wire, is engaged by a hook B, that has ascrewthreaded shank d, herein shown as engaged with a tapped sleeve 0,that in practice constitutes part of a rotary water-conduit in abottle-washing machine, although it is practical to omit the sleeve andhave the connection of the hook direct with the remainder of thewater-conduit. The hook-shank is shown as provided with an aperture efor the escape of water, and this aperture is preferably oblique, asherein shown.

The hook is of such proportions that when the shank thereof is run itsfull length into the water-conduit the point f will be close enough tothe adjacent end of said conduit to prevent the detachment of a brushhaving its eye engaged by said hook, the point of the latter beingpreferably beveled to facilitate engagement of the brush-eye.

tle, and a bottle-washing machine being provided with such holders it isa simple matter to change brushes without detaching said holders.

Tapped sleeves or conduit-sections O are I necessary in connection withbottle-washing machines wherein the bottle ends of the Water-conduitsterminate in screw-threaded nipples, as is ordinarily the case, but inthe construction of new machines it is practical to tap the outer endsof said conduits, and thereby do away with the necessity for saidsleeves or conduit-sections as hook-holders. It also follows that thesleeve or conduit -section herein described is an extension of therotary conduit itself, and therefore the hook-shank is always adjustablein a tapped extremity of said conduit, whether the latter be in one ortwo pieces.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A rotary Water-conduit of a bottle-washing machine having a tappedextremity, in combination with a hook having an apertured screw-threadedshank-adjustable in said extremity of the conduit, and a brush having aneye engaged by the hook, the point of the latter coming close to saidconduit extremity when said shank is run its full length therein.

2. A sleeve for screw-thread connection with a water-conduit of abottle-washing machine to constitute part of the same, a hook having anapertured shank in screw-thread engagement with the sleeve, and a brushhaving an eye engaged by the hook, the point of the latter coming closeto said sleeve when said shank is run its full length therein to preventdetachment of the brush.

3. As an article of manufacture, a sleeve for screw-thread connectionwith a water-conduit of a bottle-washing machine to consti- 5 lengththerein.

tute part of the same, and a hook having an the county of Milwaukee andState of Wisapei'tured shank in screw engagement with consin, in thepresence of two Witnesses. the sleeve, the point of the hook comingclose ADOLPH R VVIENS to said sleeve when said shank is run its full\Vitnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I N. E. ()LIPHANT,

have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in O. ROLOFF.

